WHY DO SO MANY WHITE OLDER MEN FEAR THE MOVEMENT TO END ALL OPPRESSION? —“Beca

WHY DO SO MANY WHITE OLDER MEN FEAR THE MOVEMENT TO END ALL OPPRESSION?

—“Because they remember, a benefit and curse of old age. They remember others who promised heaven on earth, but delivered only hell. They remember this, having experienced it first hand, or heard the tales from their parents or grandparents, or from neighbors and coworkers. They read it in newspapers, heard it on the radio and saw it on the evening news, of men trying to escape from socialist “paradises,” risking and often losing their lives, dashing across a border, crossing walls in balloons or seas in rickety boats. Old men remember.”— Rob Weir, Aphorist